US Patent Issued to eSports Immersion on June 3 for "Systems and methods for immersing spectators in sporting event and evaluating spectator-participant performance" (New Mexico Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,323,648, issued on June 3, was assigned to eSports Immersion LLC (Albuquerque, N.M.).

"Systems and methods for immersing spectators in sporting event and evaluating spectator-participant performance" was invented by Luis Melisendro Ortiz (Albuquerque, N.M.) and Kermit Dean Lopez (Albuquerque, N.M.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods enable sporting event spectators to do more than just observe an online or live contest with the spectators' engagement being limited to group messaging with other spectators (and possibly also the game stars/participants) during an event. The present invention provides a new level of participat...